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...High Inquisitor doesn’t just make enemies on the faculty. One of her first decrees in Order of the Phoenix immediately disbands all extracurricular activities. It would be convenient if the policy aimed to allow students more time to focus on academics, but it doesn’t—it’s merely that the High Inquisitor wants to be able to approve each student group before it re-forms...
Illingworth’s departure follows the ouster of Lewis in March and a restructuring of the College administration that combines the oversight of academic and extracurricular matters—some say to the detriment of the latter...
Several administrators have also said they’re concerned that Dean of the Faculty William C. Kirby is now working to shift the College’s priorities away from extracurricular activities as he forces out Lewis—a longtime advocate of student life and extracurriculars—and replaces him with someone whose administrative area of expertise had been curricular matters...
...There is a tendency, mistaken I believe, to propose bridging the extracurricular and academic realms by literally merging them—perhaps giving academic credit for public service activities, or making better efforts to bring extracurricular theatre experiences into course in literary fields,” Lewis wrote Kirby in February...
Jackson acknowledges that the decreased interest in the Callbacks and CityStep could have been an anomaly this year. But he says he worries about the future of extracurricular activities because the success of many student groups depends on the willingness of their leadership to place academic work on the “back burner...